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+.. _accelerate_image_compression:
+
+
+============================
+Accelerate image compression
+============================
+
+A general framework to accommodate hardware compression accelerators for
+compression of volumes uploaded to the Image service (Glance) as images and
+decompression of compressed images used to create volumes is introduced in
+Train release.
+
+The only accelerator supported in this release is Intel QuickAssist Technology
+(QAT), which produces a compressed file in gzip format.  Additionally, the
+framework provides software-based compression using GUNzip tool if a suitable
+hardware accelerator is not available.  Because this software fallback could
+cause performance problems if the Cinder services are not deployed on
+sufficiently powerful nodes, the default setting is *not* to enable compression
+on image upload or download.
+
+The compressed image of a volume will be stored in the Image service (Glance)
+with the ``container_format`` image property of ``compressed``.  See the `Image
+service documentation <https://docs.openstack.org/glance/latest>`_ for more
+information about this image container format.
+
+Configure image compression
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+To enable the image compression feature, set the following configuration option
+in the ``cinder.conf`` file:
+
+.. code-block:: ini
+
+   allow_compression_on_image_upload = True
+
+By default it will be set to False, which means image compression is disabled.
+
+.. code-block:: ini
+
+   compression_format = gzip
+
+This is to specify image compression format. The only supported format is
+``gzip`` in Train release.
+
+System requirement
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+In order to use this feature, there should be a hardware accelerator existing
+in system, otherwise no benefit will get from this feature. Regarding the two
+accelerators that supported, system should be configured as below:
+
+- ``Intel QuickAssist Technology (QAT)`` - This is the hardware accelerator
+  from Intel. The driver of QAT should be installed, refer to
+  https://01.org/intel-quickassist-technology. Also the compression library
+  QATzip should be installed, refer to https://github.com/intel/QATzip.
+
+- ``GUNzip`` - The related package of ``GUNzip`` should be installed and the
+  command ``gzip`` should be available. This is used as fallback when hardware
+  accelerator is not available.
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 .. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 1
 
+   blockstorage-accelerate-image-compression.rst
    blockstorage-api-throughput.rst
    blockstorage-manage-volumes.rst
    blockstorage-troubleshoot.rst